The
aim of the book is to point the attention to the oceans. In order to
explain the real cause of global rising temperatures, scientists started
to study the phenomenon in earnest in the 1980’s. The aim of the book is
to ensure that the mainstream of climate research is not constantly
missing the point. Our aim is to establish that anthropogenic climatic
changes are really due to two grand field experiments that men undertook
during the last century.

The purpose of this book is to show that the activities of war at sea
during WWI and WWII correlate perfectly with the only two significant
climatic changes from 1900 until 2000: the one that started in 1918 and
lasted until 1939 and the second one which started in the winter of
1939-40 and lasted until the early 1980s. The temperature rise during the
recent 25 years can be “newly caused”, but could also be a résumé of
the steep temperature rise between 1918 and 1939, interrupted by WWII.

CO2 gases are the top blamed cause for the so-called global warming. And
it seems it is going to remain the same for most of the official world.
The aim of the book is to leave no doubt that climate is the continuation
of the ocean and that the ocean determines where the climate is heading
to. In this scenario, CO2 may have only a remote role to play.

Oceans and seas are very complex. They are only randomly monitored ever
since and, even today, not very well understood. But war at sea during two
major world wars was a force reckoned immediately even by the ocean. Two
climate changes during the last century prove the point. Winter
temperatures had risen in Spitsbergen by 8ºC, between 1918 and 1939. The
whole Europe got warmer year by year. German Chancellor Adolph Hitler
started the war in 1939 and Northern Europe was immediately dragged back
into Little Ice Age conditions not experienced in 100 years. Two further
arctic war winters followed in the region with extreme naval activities
until the war at sea went global, in 1942. And what followed without any
delay? Can one speak of a surprise that a four decades of global cooling
followed? Particularly the Northern Hemisphere felt the cooling, because
here naval war was the most devastating and left a pronounced fingerprint
in the downturn of global temperatures.

Even though the book section on naval warfare from 1942 until 1945 is
short, the link between naval forces and global cooling is overwhelmingly
convincing. Actually, it is the first reasonable explanation at all.

Even more reliable proof are the several regional super-large field
experiments conducted four times in Northern Europe’s waters: 1916/17,
1939/40, 1940/41 and 1941/42, strongly felt throughout the region by
extreme winter temperatures. Each time the effect was like a “big shock”.

More than 5ºC winter temperatures below average are totally out of tune
with standard climate that should not allow any rest before not understood.
But nothing happened in this respect over more than six decades.

Until now, only one of the most ruthless WWII warmonger, German
Vice-Chancellor Hermann Goering, commented the arctic winter of 1939/40 by
saying that “a higher power has sent the harsh winter conditions”. He
was never prosecuted for being together with other Nazi leaders
responsible for three polar winters and for four decades of global cooling.

Imagine there is global cooling, and no one cares. Imagine there is global
warming and the world is highly concerned. The two assertions do not fit
together. The first reflects circumstances more than half a century ago;
the latter is the situation now. Insofar, the statements seem to
contradict each other.But in
a wider sense, they fit well. Someone who claims to be able to explain
current global warming must also be able to explain a pronounced global
cooling which effected climate only a half century ago.Ignoring the event for over six decades could be more ignorant than
relating matters to a ‘higher power’.

Remember when unusual powerful hurricane ‘Katrina’ hit New Orleans, in
the summer of 2005. People insisted being informed to understand the
matter. Assume winter temperatures suddenly turn to Ice Age conditions not
experienced for more than one hundred years, but no one talks about it
because there is war. That was actually the case during the winter of
1939/40 when in several locations, in Northern Europe, average
temperatures were more degrees lower then during the whole previous
century, and WWII war machinery cooled down the earth for four decades.

If this investigation succeeds in proving that two major wars changed the
course of climate twice in the last century, it will also prove that
shipping, fishing, off-shore drilling and other ocean uses constantly
contributed to global warming since the start of the industrialization,
more than 150 years ago. A new chapter on the climate change issue could
be opened, giving more attention to ocean affairs through forceful use of
the potential of the “1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of
the Sea”, which would lead to a better understanding and protection
of the stability of our short-term weather and long-term global climate.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Most of the graphs have been made by Edon Muhaxheri from Pristina in 2005,
and the book cover for this colored edition by my very good old friend
MILO from Hamburg, which is gratefully acknowledged.